Richard Lugar

Richard Lugar (4 April 1932-28 April 2019) was a US Senator from Indiana (R) from 3 January 1977 to 3 January 2013, succeeding Vance Hartke and preceding Joe Donnelly.

Biography
Richard Lugar was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1932, and he graduated from Denison University and from the University of Oxford. He served on the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners from 1964 to 1967 before serving as Mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1976 and being elected to the US Senate in 1976. He failed in his 1996 Republican presidential primary bid, but he had a successful Senate career, supporting the dismantling of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons around the world. Lugar supported pragmatic, scientific solutions to climate change issues, believed that the sanctions on Cuba were a failed policy, supported gun control, opposed Barack Obama's healthcare reforms and stimulus packages, held a liberal stance on immigration, criticized the conduct of the Iraq War, and held a socially conservative stance on LGBT issues. He left the Senate in 2013, and he died in Falls Church, Virginia in 2019 at the age of 87.